When comparing Feedly vs Yahoo News Digest, the Slant community recommends Feedly for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?”Feedly is ranked 2nd while Yahoo News Digest is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Feedly is:

Feedly has an easy to overview interface. While this interface is clean and simple, it is still full of bright colors.
A great feature that adds to the clean feel is "eliminate clutter", which keeps only the text of the desired topic.

Pro

Browser extensions

Pro

Open API

There are multitudes of third party clients available for many platforms.

Pro

IFTTT and Zapier integration (Paid)

Feedly functionality can be extended and workflows automated with IFTTT and Zapier integrations that make it possible to connect the reader with hundreds of popular apps.

Pro

Boards for organising the content (Paid)

Feedly allows you to create unlimited Boards (folders/sets/collections) and use them to organise your saved content.

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Beautiful UI design

Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story.

Pro

Great for a casual reader of the News

Rather than give you full articles, the app creates "Atoms". It's a short summary of the news event, generated from a variety of different sources.It provides infographs, images, videos and more to help you quickly understand the news event. This means you are able to read through all of the news stories in minutes.

Pro

Only shows top few stories

Hard to get lost in reading news when you only get 8-12 stories at a time.

Cons

Con

No keyword filtering

Feedly has no ability to filter a feed by keyword like a lot of other RSS readers do.

Con

Long list of paid-only features

Free features are pretty basic. It seems like all the new development goes into paid-only features. Paid features include sharing and saving options, alerts, backup, support or integrations with collaborative tools.

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No offline support

There is no offline support with the official client.

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No push notifications

Among the most requested features for Feedly is push notification support. The feature was officially requested in 2011 and currently has over 600 votes on Feedly's Uservoice.

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Steals page views

Feedly has had issues multiple times with hijacking page views from original publishers. See: